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N. HYLE.

HOOK AND BYE. No 573,879. Patented 1160.29, 1896.

' \NVENTOR ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NETTIE HYLE, OF SYRACUSE, NElV YORK.

HOQK AND EYE.

SPECIFIGATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,879, dated December29, 1896. Application filed January 22, 1896. Serial No. 576,405. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NETTIE HYLE, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga,in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inHooks and Eyes, of which the following, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to hooks and eyes, commonly used for connecting themeeting edges of a garment or for other purposes, and my objectis toprovide the hook with additional means for securing it to the garment,as a loop or loops at the end of the body which is adjacent to the bendwhich creates the point of the hook which engages with the eye, so thatthis front end of the hook is held down and prevented from swinging inany direction or slipping or sliding upon the cloth, all so that thepoint of the hook is always in proper alinement to enter the eye; and myfurther objectis to provide the eye with the usual bend to engage withthe hook, with the usual loops for connecting the same to a garment, andwith a cross-bar or trussrod between and connecting said loops, by

which said loops are always kept, held, and maintained at their normaldistance apart and the eye prevented from becoming elongated by thestrain of the hook thereon.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction andoperation hereinafter described, and which are specifically set forth inthe claims hereunto annexed. It is constructed as follows, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top planView of my hook. Fig. 2 is aside elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a top planof a hook having two loops at one end and only one at the other. Fig. 4is a like view of a hook like Fig. 3, except that there is a variationas to the single loop. Figs. 5 and 6 are top plans of eyes difieringslightly in the connection of the cross-bar or truss-rod to the loops.In this construction the hook, as well as the eye, each consists of asingle piece of wire.

In my hook the wire is bent centrally at 2 to form the point of thehook-arm. Then the substantially parallel sides are bent at 3. Then eachside of the wire is bent upon itself and curved outwardly and theninwardly to create the eyes 4, from which the sides ex tend back to andare bent to create the loops 5. The eyes 4 and loops 5 are insubstantially the same plane; and by their use both ends of the hook arefirmly secured to the garment and prevented from twisting, slipping, orflopping around, and are always in position to engage with the eye. Itwill be noticed that the strand forming the front eyes extends backwardsfrom the hook be tween and under the parallel strands.

In Figs. 3 and 4 only a single loop 5 is created, one side of the wireending in the eyes 4 at 6. In Fig. 4the single loop 5 is formed bywinding or wrapping the free end of the wire around the body of thewire, as at 7. It will be noticed that the eyes or loops 4 extendforward beyond the body of the hook in every instance shown in thedrawings. The object of this feature is to hold both extreme ends of thehook squarely and flatly upon the material and to prevent the front endof the hook from beinglifted from the material to which it is attachedwhen there is. an outward strain upon the eye. Moreover, the fasteningloops or eyes being extended outward from the hook prevent gaping of themeeting edges of the material to which the hook and eye are attached,because the hook-body is located at some little distance back of theedge.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the eye shown is created from a single piece of wire.In Fig. 5 it is bent centrally to form the bight 8, then bent to formthe side eyes 9, and one free end is carried across and connected to theopposite eye at 10, thus creating the truss 11 to prevent the expansionor spreading apart of the eyes and also to prevent them from being drawninwardly toward each other. In Fig. 6 the wire, after forming the eye 9,is given a turn, as at 12, and thence extends across as a truss-rod andis connected to the opposite eye.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

1. A garment-hook comprising parallel wire strands, lying closelytogether, fastening eyes or loops at its opposite ends, and a hookintermediate the eyes, the wire strands forming the front eyes extendedbackWard from the hook, between and under the parallel strands,substantially as described.

'2. A garment-hook consisting of the hook '5 portion, 3, the forwardloops, at, the Wire forming said loops extended backward from the hookbetween and under the parallel strands, and the loop 5, at the rear endof the hook, the terminal of the Wire forming 10 this loop being Wrappedabout the parallel base portion of the hook, substantially as described.

3. An eye to accompany a hook consisting of a single piece of Wire bentto form the bight 8, then'bent to form the side eyes 9 and hav- I 5 ingone free end extended from one side eye, across to and connected to theother one.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand on this 21st day ofOctober, 1895.

NETTIE HYLE. In presence of G. W. SMITH, J. E. MURRAY.

